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has claimed that Chi­nese Pres­i­dent Xi Jin­ping per­son­ally assured him that Beijing would block any at­tempt to re­move Duterte from of­fice. “The as­sur­ances of Xi are very en­cour­ag­ing: we will not al­low you to be taken out from your of­fice and we will not al­low the Philip­pines to go to the dogs,” Duterte said in a speech as he ap­proaches the end of the